Gregory Carter is a Senior Staff Specialist and Acting Director of Dept. Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital and Conjoint Professor in Psychiatry in the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle. He is a Chief Investigator for the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention. He was the Chair for the RANZCP Clinical Practice Guidelines for Deliberate Self-Harm, a member of the RANZCP President’s Suicide Advisory Committee and the RANZCP representative to the Prime Minister’s Suicide Advisory Group. He is member of: the RANZCP (Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists), the SMHR (Society for Mental Health Research), the AAS (American Academy of Suicidology), the IASR (International Association of Suicide Researchers) and the DEPRESSD-PHQ international research group.